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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Yorkshire Dales and Fells. By Gordon Home. A. & C. 



Black, 1906. 180 passes, 7/6 net. 



The present work is an admirable companion to ' Yorkshire 

 Coast and Moorland Scenes,' noticed in these columns tor July 

 1904. The chapters deal with the Dale Country as a whole ; 

 Richmond ; Swaledale ; Wensleydale ; Ripon and Fountains 

 Abbey ; Knaresboroui^h and Harros<-ate ; Wharfedale ; Skipton, 

 Malham, and Gordale ; and Settle and the Ing-leton Fells. 

 Those who have attended the meetinj^-s of the \'orkshire Natu- 

 ralists' Union during- the past few years will find a peculiar 

 charm in the pages of ' \'orkshire Dales and Fells," as quite 

 a number of the identical localities \ isited are here painted 

 and described. Mr. Home is an artist of no mean ability, 

 and he sees our beautiful comity with an artist's eye : ' Kven 

 while we stand at the bridge at Hawes we can see three 

 or four ragged cloud edges letting down on as many places 

 torrential rains, while in between these are inter\ als of blazing 

 sunshine, under which the green fells turn quite yellow or 

 orange in powerful contrast to the indigo shadows on every 

 side.' When, as occasionally happens, however, natural history 

 is the subject of his story, he is not always quite so much ' at 

 home,' and it is perhaps a little unexpected to learn (p. 58) that 

 ' The river, too, seems to change its character, and become a 

 pale serpent, uncoiling itself from some mountain fastness where 

 no living creatures, hes'ide o-renf auks and carrion birds, dwell.' ! 

 In his rambles froni place to place he seems everywhere to find 

 something of beauty and interest, except perhaps at Harrogate, 

 in which ' we find nothing at all to sugg-est that the place really 

 belongs to Yorkshire .... when we ha\e tired of the pave- 

 ments and the people, we bid farewell to them without regret.' 



With the volume are twent}' reproductions, by the three- 

 colour process, of landscapes, etc., from Mr. Home's own brush. 

 Most of these are charming, one or two however have a 

 decidedl}- 'bilious' look about them — b\ a superabundance of 

 yellows and greens —possibly the result of the artist's efforts to 

 get rid of the purjjle tint so prominent in reproductions by the 

 three-colour process. The book, like its predecessor, is beauti- 

 fullv ' got up.' is printed in large type, with u ide margins, on 

 thick paper, resulting in it being perused from co\er to cover 

 all too soon. There is a good index, a map, and the binding is 

 most suital)le. 



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